 Hey guys, welcome back to more of the Pico CTF getting started to capture the flag and hacking cyber security competition stuff So we just finished up our first challenge our first capture flag challenge Internet kitties in the miscellaneous category. Let's move on. There's another 10-point challenge here So I'm again starting with some of the easy challenges starting with the the low-hanging fruit Because that point value is probably a good indicator of difficulty of how hard it is So if we're just getting started, let's try some of the the beginner-friendly stuff, right? I have questions about Pico. You can ask here. The access code is 3 1 3 3 7. So elite Nice. Let's take that copy that Hence looks like there's nothing here. Okay Ask here head over to this link. Oh wow, geez Looks like this is a Piazza a Free platform for instructors efficiently manage class questions and answers. Okay, so this looks like it's some kind of help or Kind of classroom looking like thing to Let's try that access code showing classes type it in and then we'll need our another email address Okay, let's get the get that 10-minute mail again going. That's a good easy way So we don't have to keep using real email addresses Send code cool looks like it values that I'll switch over to that tab As soon as my browser lets me thank you virtual machine. All right, cool And hopefully this won't take too too long for the email address to get it. I'll pause the video here Okay, it looks like it got it. I see this activate your account here We have an activation code it looks like there's a link to activate it and set our password So a lot of stuff. Oh boy. Jeez. Okay, John give it some information Set a dummy password. I don't really need any of this stuff. Oh geez guys. I don't Computer science anticipated completion November 2019 whatever this is all fake degrees fake stuff. I've read and accept sure Okay, I don't care guys. I just want to flag So when you get to play a capture-to-flag competition a lot of times will give you some means of support, right? That might be a slack channel that may be a discord channel that may be a IRC and any of those things will try and give you as the player means to ask for help that Like either solve like hey, I feel like this challenge isn't working the way it is. I don't know what kind of Vulnerability I'm looking for is there anything you can you can help me with etc. Let's see if we can find a Piazza Will this give us oh What is the flag for the Piazza file I cannot see this on the site and it would be nice to get points for it looks like This flag is submitted. Someone's responded Please look at the pinned posts. Okay So up on the top there we got notifications If anything pinned Yeah, pinned up top. Okay Welcome Looks like this one over here Welcome to the Piazza for Bica 2017. Okay, so this is an interesting platform for asking for help having support Etc in previous years we'll have an IRC channel where you can hang out cool That works just fine. If you've never used an IRC channel before let's go ahead and do that I'm gonna copy and paste this flag Submit it just so we actually have that points complete awesome Challenge solve your up 10 points and we can keep moving on but I want to showcase that IRC or internet relay chat. So if you've never heard of IRC before let's check that out on Google too Internet relay chat Wikipedia It's an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text Okay, so the things that I want you to take away from this is that it's a communication platform A means of doing so it's a protocol that is all plain text So you if you ever sniff On the wire or anything like that if you ever get a copy of some of this internet relay chat Messages, it's all plain text so you can search through them very very easily and that's gonna come in handy so if you wanted to you could go to this web chat and there's always gonna be a web platform for Actually integrating or interacting with IRC channels because they're all plain text protocols. It's pretty easy more of these freaking I Am not a robot things cool. Thanks. So once we're logged in you have some other Options for like forward slash join or forward slash help It's kind of command line oriented right just like we're used to typing on the keyboard stuff like that You can see all the users in the right-hand side And then there are any kinds of Conversations you can make but say hello or just sending a message in Pico CTF. So That channel that hashtag that you see that hashtag at Pico CTF because it's specific channel on FreeNode or the server FreeNode is the server for this internet relay chat or this IRC channel And that way you can ask for support and get support when you're playing a capture flag competition Let's leave that tap great since we've got the flag we can move on here But I did want to show you that because normally that's what you'll see you'll see an IRC channel You can interact with through web chat like Kiwi IRC or web IRC or those things that we you could find on Google or anywhere But maybe it's a slack channel. Maybe it's a discord server stuff like that You'll see them and that's where you can ask for help when you're playing these capture flag competitions So we're learning bit by bit Slowly, but surely again We're still getting into the building blocks and the foundation to move in some an elite cool cyber security hacking stuff And that's honestly how we've got to do it right because cyber security and computer science hacking is such a huge scene It's such a big industry. We've got to learn bit by bit So maybe exposure like this through a capture the flag competition is the right way to do it because it's got to happen Somehow so cool. We're ready to move on to the next challenge But before we do I got to give a shout out to my sponsors or the people that are willing to support me Spencer Clark, Cal Horowitz, Suzoka, Attila, Orgel off the Unrelenting Shore of Worlds, Bachelors here, blah, blah, blah They are not sponsors. 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